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Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Benjamin Disraeli
Book, Nine, Nonsense

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

Benjamin Disraeli
Stars, Light, Way

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Benjamin Disraeli
Change, Should Have, Progress
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3719, Delphi Classics

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Benjamin Disraeli
Love, Heartbreak, Sarcastic
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.119

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Benjamin Disraeli
Life, Inspire, Easy
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5019, Delphi Classics

Finality is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Politics, Language
'Hansard' 28 February 1859

We moralize among ruins.

Benjamin Disraeli
Ruins, Morality
Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.257

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Benjamin Disraeli
Fashion, Passion, Men
Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.223, London : H. Colburn

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

Benjamin Disraeli
Believe, History, Christianity

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Benjamin Disraeli
Life, Time, Two Nations
Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness, Grief, Grieving
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.378, Delphi Classics

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

Benjamin Disraeli
Morning, Book, Library

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Benjamin Disraeli
Philosophical, Ideas, Political
Benjamin Disraeli, John Alexander Wilson Gunn (1993). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851”, p.103, University of Toronto Press

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

Benjamin Disraeli
Conservative, Constitution, Radical
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Politics, Gladstone
"Are Britain's politicians losing the power of speech?" by Peter Hoskin, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 20, 2012.

The expected always happens

Benjamin Disraeli
Expected, Happens

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

Benjamin Disraeli
Eye, Society, Littles
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4092, Delphi Classics

Life is to short to be small.

Benjamin Disraeli
Life Is Short, Personality, Life Is

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

Benjamin Disraeli
Love, Marriage, Long

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

Benjamin Disraeli
Imagination, Enthusiasm, Heat
Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Benjamin Disraeli
Successful, Triumph, Alliances
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Benjamin Disraeli
Motivational, Thank You, Thankful

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Benjamin Disraeli
Tact, Inquirers
Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Artist, May
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.79

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Benjamin Disraeli
Sarcastic, Work, Ignorance
'Sybil' (1845) bk. 4, ch. 5.